The Knicks told us how they felt about Mohamed Diawara by locking him up to an extension before the restricted free agent could test the open market.<\/p>\n
Leon Rose & Co. are obviously very high on the 6-foot-9 wing, after a better-than-expected rookie year in which the 51st overall pick in the 2025 draft appeared in 69 games and made seven starts. <\/p>\n
The front office and Diawara agreed to a multiyear deal worth over $10 million<\/a>, according to The Post\u2019s Stefan Bondy. <\/p>\n It is a hefty raise after Diawara earned $1.27 million last season, the lowest on the team.<\/p>\n Next up for Diawara is summer league in Las Vegas, beginning next Friday. <\/p>\n He is the main attraction on a roster that also includes second-round pick (47th overall) Tyler Nickel out of Vanderbilt and 2024 first-round pick Pac\u00f4me Dadiet.<\/p>\n The best thing that can be said about a non-rookie in summer league is that he doesn\u2019t belong there. <\/p>\n Mohamed Diawara attempts a shot during the Knicks\u2019 Dec. 25 game. Charles Wenzelberg<\/p>\n The Knicks would obviously like that to be the case with Diawara. <\/p>\n This is an opportunity for him to prove himself after falling out of coach Mike Brown\u2019s playoff rotation. <\/p>\n He will likely be featured.<\/p>\n The Frenchman had a strong first season, averaging 3.6 points, 1.4 rebounds and shooting 36.9 percent from 3-point range in 9.2 minutes. <\/p>\n His offense surprised the Knicks. <\/p>\n He was projected as a potential elite defender due to his impressive length (7-foot-4 wingspan) and athleticism.<\/p>\n Diawara enjoyed a breakout performance in a Dec. 29 win against the Pelicans in which he made four 3-pointers and scored 18 points, and broke into the regular-season rotation in December.<\/p>\n \u201cMo is not afraid,\u201d Brown said then. \u201cHe\u2019s the most confident young man I\u2019ve been around. He\u2019s got a chance to be really good.\u201d<\/p>\n The Post takes a look at other things to watch for the Knicks summer league team:<\/p>\n Dadiet a potential trade chip<\/p>\n The clock could be ticking on the 6-foot-9 Dadiet. <\/p>\n Diawara appears to have passed him. <\/p>\n In two years, Dadiet has played in only 47 games as a Knick. <\/p>\n Over the next few weeks he has a chance to impress. <\/p>\n The better he performs, the better for the Knicks. <\/p>\n Pac\u00f4me Dadiet attempts a shot during a June 12 practice Dadiet could be a trade chip, with the team looking to avoid the second apron, and with roughly $6.5 million to spare. <\/p>\n He is owed $2.98 million next season. <\/p>\n Dadiet doesn\u2019t turn 21 until July 27, is relatively inexpensive and could interest another franchise. <\/p>\n Moving him would free Rose up to add another center of significance to pair with Andre Drummond as Karl-Anthony Towns\u2019 backup<\/a> after Mitchell Robinson was lost to the Celtics in free agency<\/a>.<\/p>\n Familiar name<\/p>\n Former St. John\u2019s guard Oziyah Sellers agreed to a summer league deal with the Knicks and should get the chance to potentially earn a training camp invite \u2014 either from them or someone else if he performs well in Sin City. <\/p>\n Oziyah Sellers attempts a shot during a March 22 game for St. John\u2019s. Charles Wenzelberg<\/p>\n The 6-foot-5 Sellers helped the Johnnies repeat as Big East regular-season and postseason champions and reach the Sweet 16 for the first time since 1999. <\/p>\n He\u2019s a lights-out 3-point shooter \u2014 Sellers made 37.8 percent of his attempts from distance in four seasons in college \u2014 and defended better than expected in his one season in Queens. <\/p>\n For St. John\u2019s last winter, Sellers averaged 10.3 points, 2.7 rebounds and 1.6 assists per game.<\/p>\n Others to watch<\/p>\n Nickel is the lone Knicks draft pick on the team \u2014 fellow second-rounder Jack Kayil of Germany isn\u2019t on the roster. <\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t\tWhat\u2019s happening on and off the Garden court\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSign up for Inside the Knicks by Stefan Bondy, a weekly exclusive on Sports+.\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\tThank you\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n The 6-foot-8 Nickel is a big-time shotmaker who averaged 13.5 points and shot 40 percent from 3 last year on 7.6 attempts for Vanderbilt. <\/p>\n There is always room for shooters with size.<\/p>\n An intriguing name is former Michigan State guard Jaden Akins. <\/p>\n Akins was a G-League All-Star last season while playing for the Motor City Cruise \u2014 the Pistons affiliate \u2014 averaging 14.7 points, 4.8 assists and shooting just under 36 percent from 3. <\/p>\n He went undrafted in 2025 and signed an Exhibit 10 contract with the Pistons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Knicks told us how they felt about Mohamed Diawara by locking him up to an extension before…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":781711,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,1227,2901,82],"class_list":["post-781710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nba","tag-nba-summer-league","tag-new-york-knicks","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=781710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781710\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/781711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=781710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=781710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=781710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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